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This post was originally published on this siteWelcome to the tenth edition of In The Bag!This one comes a little late, it’s (barely) Sunday here, not Friday! Sorry about that, but I was “stuck” in a secure facility all week, doing a vSphere 5.5 til vSphere 6.5 migration. Photo by Frontline Creative In The Bag #10 – Week […]

This post was originally published on this siteWelcome to the tenth edition of In The Bag!This one comes a little late, it’s (barely) Sunday here, not Friday! Sorry about that, but I was “stuck” in a secure facility all week, doing a vSphere 5.5 til vSphere 6.5 migration. Photo by Frontline Creative In The Bag #10 – Week […]

This second post will continue with the small series of blog posts. This series will talk about some probably not well know features of Veeam Backup & Replication.

Usually you’ve got your infrastructure set up, your Veeam backup server up and running, and your daily backup and replication jobs are working fine. And then, all of a sudden, the manager arrives at your desk (or calls you by phone, I leave it to your imagination…) and would like you to decommission an old virtual machine. You don’t need this machine anymore. But the management (and probably you too) are not sure, so just kill and delete this VM isn’t an option. I think this is pretty common in various companies. Getting rid of old and already replaced virtual machines frees up costly hardware ressources (CPU, Ram, Disk). One of the most reason to not kill a VM is that people aren’t sure if

This post was originally published on this siteWhile at a customer site, migrating an old vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.5, several hosts suddenly crashed with a PSOD during the migration. Long story short, we got hit by this: VMware KB 2147958: ESXi 6.5 host fails with PSOD: GP Exception 13 in multiple VMM world at VmAnon_AllocVmmPages (2147958) […]

This post was originally published on this siteWhile at a customer site, migrating an old vSphere 5.5 environment to 6.5, several hosts suddenly crashed with a PSOD during the migration. Long story short, we got hit by this: VMware KB 2147958: ESXi 6.5 host fails with PSOD: GP Exception 13 in multiple VMM world at VmAnon_AllocVmmPages (2147958) […]

With this post i’d like to start with a small series of blog posts. This series will talk about some probably not well know features of Veeam Backup & Replication.

Usually you’ve got your infrastructure set up, your Veeam backup server up and running, and your daily backup and replication jobs are working fine. And then, all of a sudden, the manager arrives at your desk (or calls you by phone, I leave it to your imagination…) and would like you to install a patch from software development. I think this is pretty common in various companies. Installing patches for your software (doesn’t matter if it’s a Microsoft Exchange server or your internal Apache web server with your intranet running on it) is not only necessary to get the latest features and bug fixes, but it’s also a matter of security to get security flaws patched.

When you are an active Veeam forums user then you will probably also receive the weekly mail on Sunday evening from Anton Gostev. The famous „Word from Gostev“. In the most recent mail from Gostev, the one from last Sunday (19th of February 2017) Gostev announced that update 1 for Veeam Backup & Replication now is integrated in the ISO file for download.

Well, that’s great news! Until this date you had to download the ISO file and the update separately, and install both separately too. Now you don’t have to do that anymore. If you’re planning to install a fresh Veeam backup server, or if you just want to update your software library with the latest versions, then you can now grab the updated ISO file which includes update 1.

It’s possible that i only dreamt of it, but i’m pretty sure that i read it somewhere, either in

This post was originally published on this siteWelcome to the ninth edition of In The Bag! Photo by James SuttonIn The Bag #9 – Week 7 2017 Technology Setting the record straight on DRS, pDRS and Workload PlacementHow does DRS and pDRS work, really? What metrics are the basis for decisions, and how often are the calculations done? […]

This post was originally published on this siteWelcome to the ninth edition of In The Bag! Photo by James SuttonIn The Bag #9 – Week 7 2017 Technology Setting the record straight on DRS, pDRS and Workload PlacementHow does DRS and pDRS work, really? What metrics are the basis for decisions, and how often are the calculations done? […]

When i recently surfed through the web, gathering information about possibilities and technologies to get at least some automation into my blog, i stumbled across CoSchedule. I’m an IT guy, and i like some things working automated. So why shouldn’t that work on my blog? Is it because i’m lazy or because it’s just hard work sometimes to get all things well organized and orchestrated?

So i took a closer look at CoSchedule. And what i found out really amazed me.

What is CoSchedule?

CoSchedule is your #1 marketing calendar. Your automation buddy on WordPress. Your virtual publisher. Create great content and CoSchedule will do all the publishing on the social media channels you like. You define what and when and CoSchedule does the rest for you. You don’t have to worry about shorten links anymore, or to search for the permalinks to your blog posts for re-publishing them on